Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between

Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between

Doctors heal, or try to, but as nurses we step into the breach, figure out what needs to be done for any given patient today, on this shift, and then, with love and exasperation, do it as best as we can. Critical Care... read more

Ineffective Airway Clearance Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plans

Ineffective Airway Clearance Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plans

Ineffective airway clearance is the inability to clear secretions or obstructions from the respiratory tract. This can be detrimental to breathing and create complications. Secretions can be problematic as a result of... read more

Nursing in Critical Care Setting: An Overview from Basic to Sensitive Outcomes

Nursing in Critical Care Setting: An Overview from Basic to Sensitive Outcomes

This book provides essential insights into how the approach to nursing care in ICU patients has markedly changed over recent years. It shows how the focus has progressively moved away from the technical approach that characterized... read more

Nursing Care and ECMO

Nursing Care and ECMO

This highly informative book provides essential insights for ICU nurses at ECMO centers around the world, who face the substantial challenges involved in the management of ECMO patients. Above all, it meets their training... read more

Fast Facts About EKGs for Nurses: The Rules of Identifying EKGs in a Nutshell

Fast Facts About EKGs for Nurses: The Rules of Identifying EKGs in a Nutshell

In an easy-to-use "Fast Facts" format, this pocket-sized reference provides clear and precise access to basic EKG information and EKG recognition guidelines that nurses use daily. The guide helps readers to accurately... read more

Overcoming Mental Health Stigma For Nurses

Overcoming Mental Health Stigma For Nurses

What’s the first thought that comes to mind when you think about mental illness? Is it something negative? If so, it probably comes from the stigma associated with mental health. A stigma is defined as "a mark of disgrace... read more

Impact of Variations in the Nursing Care Supply-Demand Ratio on Postoperative Outcomes and Costs

Impact of Variations in the Nursing Care Supply-Demand Ratio on Postoperative Outcomes and Costs

Improving surgical outcomes is a priority during the last decades because of the rising economic health care burden. The adoption of enhanced recovery programs has been proven to be part of the solution. In this context,... read more

Quick Reference to Critical Care

Quick Reference to Critical Care

Sharpen your critical care skills, with the fully updated Quick Reference to Critical Care, fifth 5th edition. This well-illustrated pocket guide covers the full range of critical care scenarios, listing each disorder, medication,... read more

Fear and Insight in the ICU Bed

Fear and Insight in the ICU Bed

Mid-morning dressing changes, hours wasted, going through each cut methodically. Dressing off, wound cleaned, redressed. The brunt of pain dealt with by nature before giving in. The intensive care unit (ICU) nurse offers... read more

Difficulties Faced by Nurses Who Care For Patients with Delirium in the ICU

Difficulties Faced by Nurses Who Care For Patients with Delirium in the ICU

We developed a difficulty scale for nurses caring for patients with delirium in the intensive care unit and confirmed its reliability and validity. The difficulty factors were developed with the intention to identify educational... read more

International Council of Nurses #NursesForPeace Campaign

International Council of Nurses #NursesForPeace Campaign

As the war in Ukraine continues and the death toll of victims rises, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) repeats its call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to hostilities for the sake of the people of Ukraine and... read more

Assessing Movement-Evoked Pain

Assessing Movement-Evoked Pain

One of the most common and nuanced tasks that nurses perform is pain assessment, particularly in acute postoperative settings where frequent reassessments are needed. Most assessments are limited to obtaining a pain intensity... read more

The Family in Preventing Delirium in the ICU

The Family in Preventing Delirium in the ICU

Extended visits, development of family-mediated activities, and redirection are non-pharmacological strategies that reduce the incidence of delirium in the ICU and offer multiple benefits to the patient and family/caregiver. The... read more

Why Don’t Hospitals Just Pay Full-time Nurses More?

Why Don’t Hospitals Just Pay Full-time Nurses More?

Hospitals' reliance on travel workers is nothing new. The pandemic intensified it and highlighted the gap between full-time workers' pay and lucrative temporary contracts. While the average salary for a travel nurse can... read more